Boards

I'm sticking my cock in the piranha tank here, but here goes... I'm in the process of putting together a demo - the songs are finished (four of them), and I'm put artwork and covers etc together, hope to have it all finished by the end of this week - and I thought I could ask anyone around here on DiS if they'd like to review it. Don't know who or who doesn't have a blog / website / zine / spare time, so I'm offering it onto the masses to take if they want.

My music is 'noisy electropop', roughly. In essence, it's made up of samples I've recorded and samples I haven't, all bundled up and processed to shit, backed by heavy drums and synths and guitars, with me singing/droning over the top. Other people have compared me to the likes of Hot Chip, The Postal Service, Beck, Cornelius, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. That's pretty vague, but I hope you get the idea.

So... if you fancy reviewing it (even if it's just a couple of words), I can send you an electronic copy before the end of the week. PM me (with or without yer email address) and I'll send you the link!

At the end of the week i'll release the link for everyone to have (if they want). And if anyone really likes it, I can send you a hard copy (I only have 100 of them though).

Why do I ask DiS? Because I figured someone here might be interested, and I like to get my music 'out there'.

Download and listen at your pleasure. If you want to review it, by all means do so, and I'll make sure everyone knows about it. If you want a hard copy of it, let me know, and I can send you one for free.

"The Crash" is my least favourite on there, so I don't know if I'd've opened with it... then again, it's probably the most "first track"-y of the lot, so maybe you're onto something. I do like some of the boing-y sound effects though!

"...Budapest" is damn catchy. I had it in my head most of yesterday - although it's definitely in the "Fat Lady of Limbourg" school of strangely-catchy-but-somehow-not-annoying. Not that it sounds like Eno, you understand... I guess if you want a comparison to stick on myspace, it sounds more like the Knife than anything else. Or at the least the beats etc do...

"Running to the Airport". I'm liking this. And I can see where you got your Cornelius comparison from. Only thing is, having the "good morning bedsprings" bit so close to the first "the best thing that I ever said" bit made it seem a bit disjointed on the first coupla runs through. But after a few listens it does work, I think.

"Unnecessary Fuss" was already one of my favourite tunes of the year. What can I say? Sounds like Odd Nosdam remixing a Jonathan Krisp track, sticking in some blips from Aphex's Ageispolis and then getting someone to sing over it. Only gripe: this mp3 seems to cut out a second or so early. As do a couple of the others, if memory serves. That intentional, berksy?

Yeah, 'The Crash' was just an obvious choice for the starter - or more accurately I don't think any of the other tracks would've worked as an opening track. It's also the only track that has been played on the Radio, which I can only put down to the fact it's a bit more 'poppy' and closer to the three-minute-mark than my others.

Interesting you mention The Knife as a comparison on '..budapest', I hadn't thought about it before. Yes, I spose it's almost 'Silent Shout'-esque.

But more worryingly is that you mention the cut-off at the end of the tracks. Errrr, all the tracks apart from 'Unnecessary Fuss' finish abruptly (UF fading out), although I figured you wouldn't have mentioned it if it didn't sound funny. I'll have to check on that, but is anyone else experiencing that?